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...briefings at the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in downtown Saigon. Here the press corps is given a daily rundown on U.S. air, ground, and sea action by an information officer from the appropriate service. All these men really do is call attention to 'typos' in the mimeographed dope sheets given to the reporters at the door. If there are no questions from the floor (they are raised only after important battles or rumors) the briefings (called the 4:45 follies since the credibility gap days) last only 15 or 20 minutes...
...also a crumbling castle for just the right touch of the gothic, and an anti-anti-hero who is restless, wealthy, athletic, loves poetry, and drives a white Porsche. With his help, the heroine invades the castle in search of an eccentric great-aunt and finds instead a dope-smuggling operation. The young lovers rout the criminals and head blissfully for the altar. Kismet...
...accounts, dope is easily available, almost any favor can be bought and only the cunning and the brutal thrive. Moreover, penologists know that the Cook County Jail is by no means the sole or worst offender. In the wake of the disclosures, similar investigations were suggested for the city jail, where a guard recently beat a prisoner to death, and the juvenile home, where homosexuality is also rampant...
...Richard Breen nor Director Gordon Douglas affords him much opportunity to be Sinatra, an attractive enough role under proper auspices. Instead, he sleepwalks through the baroque entanglements of a plot involving a millionaire's daughter in hot water, some jewelry stolen and forged, and a veritable menagerie of dope addicts, lesbian strippers, crooked nightclub owners, exasperated cops and good-hearted lushes...
...part of Manhattan's nudie industry (TIME, Oct. 20). That ended when Rooks was arrested for possession of narcotics. Given a three-year suspended sentence, he drifted in and out of odd jobs and a brief marriage, occasionally stealing cash from his father's wallet to buy dope...